careers in geoscience
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An exploration of the nature and practicalities of studying and developing a career in geoscience. Aimed at senior high school students contemplating their study and career options.TRANSCRIPT
Careers inGeoscience
Dr Geoff BattResearch Associate Professor
ExxonMobil Fellow
Geology is the study of rocks...
...in the same way that English Literature is the study of words
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Careers in Geoscience...
Kalgoorlie mining operationsCourtesy Newcrest Mining Ltd
Kalgoorlie mining operationsCourtesy Newcrest Mining Ltd
“WMC [Western Mining Corporation] attributes its growth entirely to successful exploration which, in turn, is attributed to
the successful application of geological science.”
Roy WoodalFormer Director of Exploration, WMC, 1983
Kalgoorlie mining operationsCourtesy Newcrest Mining Ltd
“Over the next 50 years we will need to find and mine up to five times all the metal produced to date.”
Professor Brian Skinner Yale University, 2000
The resources sector is regarded as the highest paying of all industries in Australia
Chamber of Minerals and Energy
Earnings in the top 10% na@onallyAustralian Buereau of Statistics
The resources sector is regarded as the highest paying of all industries in Australia
Chamber of Minerals and Energy
Hays Salary Survey and Guide, 2011
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CMining Geology
CCPetroleum Geology
Earnings in the top 10% na@onallyAustralian Buereau of Statistics
The resources sector is regarded as the highest paying of all industries in Australia
Chamber of Minerals and Energy
“Our aim is to make Perth the first geothermally cooled city in the coming decades.”
Professor Klaus Regenauer-LiebWestern Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence
“The last major divertible surface resources close to the Perth – Bunbury axis have now been developed.”
Economic Regulation Authority of Western Australia, 2004
Australian Government Bureau of Rural Sciences, 2007
Groundwater extraction doubled in Australia between 1985 and 1997
50% of Perth’s fresh water comes from groundwater
Mineral Exploration
Mining
Petroleum
Environmental science
Groundwater
State and national exploration
Public service
Financial analysis
Company director
Management
Resources Environment Non-geoscience
Broadcasting
Conservation
Research Planning
Research
Tourism
Mineral Exploration
Mining
Petroleum
Environmental science
Groundwater
State and national exploration
Public service
Financial analysis
Company director
Management
Resources Environment Non-geoscience
Broadcasting
Conservation
Research Planning
Research
Tourism
Mineral Exploration
Mining
Petroleum
Environmental science
Groundwater
State and national exploration
Public service
Financial analysis
Company director
Management
Resources Environment Non-geoscience
Broadcasting
Conservation
Research Planning
Research
Tourism
Mineral Exploration
Mining
Petroleum
Environmental science
Groundwater
State and national exploration
Public service
Financial analysis
Company director
Management
Resources Environment Non-geoscience
Broadcasting
Conservation
Research Planning
Research
Tourism
Some of the more important decisions the community will make in the decades ahead relate to our stewardship of the Earth. We need to have available the technical capability and capacity to make and implement these key decisions, and the general community needs a basic understanding of how our planet works.
Dr David DenhamPresident , Australian Institute of Geoscientists
Submission to Senate Enquiry into Tertiary Education, 2001
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...the general community needs a basic
understanding of how our planet works
“Some@mes I think we are alone in the universe, some@mes I think we aren't: in both cases, the idea makes me dizzy”
Arthur C. Clarke
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